WhatsApp to Launch Voice Calls Later This Year
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WhatsApp to Launch Voice Calls Later This Year

12y Yuyu Chen

WhatsApp to Launch Voice Calls Later This Year

On the heels of its acquisition by Facebook, WhatsApp will introduce an Internet voice calling capability later this year. Read More...

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Yahoo Hong Kong Unveils Localized Mobile Site Ahead of Gemini
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Yahoo Hong Kong Unveils Localized Mobile Site Ahead of Gemini

12y Adaline Lau

Yahoo Hong Kong Unveils Localized Mobile Site Ahea...

Yahoo Hong Kong upgraded its mobile portal with localized features and native ad formats in January as a primer to introducing Gemini, its latest ad m...

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Facebook’s $19 Bn for WhatsApp: Crazy or Genius?
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Facebook’s $19 Bn for WhatsApp: Crazy or Genius?

12y Melanie White

Facebook’s $19 Bn for WhatsApp: Crazy or Genius?

Was the whopping $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp a totally crazy move on Facebook’s part? Or was it genius? Read More...

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Taco Bell Testing Mobile Order App With Phone-Flip Feature
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Taco Bell Testing Mobile Order App With Phone-Flip Feature

12y Lisa Lacy

Taco Bell Testing Mobile Order App With Phone-Flip...

The quick-service chain is testing an app that will allow customers to place mobile orders for pick-up, as well as to place orders simply by flipping ...

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Infographic: WhatsApp and Its Asian Competitors
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Infographic: WhatsApp and Its Asian Competitors

12y Adaline Lau

Infographic: WhatsApp and Its Asian Competitors

A look at WhatsApp with infographics and numbers and how it compares to other social platforms such as WeChat, KakaoTalk, and Viber. Read More...

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Facebook Acquires WhatsApp in $19 Billion Deal
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Facebook Acquires WhatsApp in $19 Billion Deal

12y Melanie White

Facebook Acquires WhatsApp in $19 Billion Deal

Facebook will acquire smartphone-messaging app WhatsApp for a $19 billion cash-and-stock deal. The move pushes the social network further into the fas...

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Victoria’s Secret Readies Its Pink Nation for Spring Break With In-App Scavenger Hunt
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Victoria’s Secret Readies Its Pink Nation for Spring Break With In-App Scav...

12y Lisa Lacy

Victoria’s Secret Readies Its Pink Nation for Spri...

The brand’s Pink Nation app, which is available for iPad, iPhone, and Android devices, is in the middle of a spring break takeover that includes a sca...

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A Call to Marketers: Help Us Make Mobile Work
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A Call to Marketers: Help Us Make Mobile Work

12y Anna Bager

A Call to Marketers: Help Us Make Mobile Work

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has launched a new effort called "Make Mobile Work," calling on brand marketers to step up and embrace HTML5 as the...

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Flappy Bird Stops Flapping Despite $50K Per Day Ad Rev. - Or Does It?
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Flappy Bird Stops Flapping Despite $50K Per Day Ad Rev. - Or Does It?

12y Melanie White

Flappy Bird Stops Flapping Despite $50K Per Day Ad...

Flappy Bird, has flown the coop. The highly popular game has disappeared from the app stores despite it generating considerable numbers in ad revenue....

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Tips to Keep the Mobile Search Experience Fresh
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Tips to Keep the Mobile Search Experience Fresh

12y Christian Arno

Tips to Keep the Mobile Search Experience Fresh

Here are six ways to improve mobile search interaction and keep users coming back to your site, such as keeping your design simple and using infinite ...

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Google and Microsoft Collaborate with IAB to Tackle Programmatic Trading
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Google and Microsoft Collaborate with IAB to Tackle Programmatic Trading

12y Yuyu Chen

Google and Microsoft Collaborate with IAB to Tackl...

Google, Microsoft, and other companies will work closely with the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) to provide education and solve issues regarding pr...

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Medialets' Servo Launches with MRC-Approved Measurement
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Medialets' Servo Launches with MRC-Approved Measurement

12y Liva Judic

Medialets' Servo Launches with MRC-Approved Measur...

Medialets, the mobile and tablet ad platform for advertisers and brands, is launching its new ad server for mobile, having already secured the green l...

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Unlocking the Treasures of Conquesting
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Unlocking the Treasures of Conquesting

12y Shannon E. Denison

Unlocking the Treasures of Conquesting

By building on the concept of conquesting, and expanding our use of location to compete and connect with consumers, we can potentially create more val...

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Starwood Hotels to Test Mobile, Keyless Check-In
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Starwood Hotels to Test Mobile, Keyless Check-In

12y Lisa Lacy

Starwood Hotels to Test Mobile, Keyless Check-In

The functionality will be enabled via the iPhone app for the brand’s loyalty program, allowing for the "first guest interaction with hotel associates ...

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2 Launches Take Aim at Native Mobile Advertising
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2 Launches Take Aim at Native Mobile Advertising

12y Susan Kuchinskas

2 Launches Take Aim at Native Mobile Advertising

More and more companies are muscling in on native advertising. Chasing the dream of ad relevance and engagement, InMobi and MobSoc offer online advert...

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Mobile Devices Lead Online Video Views, Adobe Says
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Mobile Devices Lead Online Video Views, Adobe Says

12y Susan Kuchinskas

Mobile Devices Lead Online Video Views, Adobe Says

100 percent of the Sochi Olympic Games will be available on mobile, thanks to Adobe's deal with NBC. Adobe Primetime will dynamically replace broadcas...

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Beats Music Service Muscles Into the Competition
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Beats Music Service Muscles Into the Competition

12y Jonathan Blaugrund

Beats Music Service Muscles Into the Competition

Beats Music is a new entry into the growing marketplace of mobile music streaming services -- how does it stack up against the competition? Read More...

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Baidu Visualization Map Tracks Chinese New Year Migration
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Baidu Visualization Map Tracks Chinese New Year Migration

12y Adaline Lau

Baidu Visualization Map Tracks Chinese New Year Mi...

Leveraging Baidu LBS open platform data, China's leading search provider tracks what is said to be the largest annual mammalian migration on Earth. Re...

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Apple Breaks iOS Device Sales Records, but Fails to Wow Investors
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Apple Breaks iOS Device Sales Records, but Fails to Wow Investors

12y Matt Kapko

Apple Breaks iOS Device Sales Records, but Fails t...

Apple broke its previous quarterly records of iPhone and iPad sales during the recently closed quarter, but made no gains in net income. Read More...

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Brands Join the Experimental Journey on Jelly
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Brands Join the Experimental Journey on Jelly

12y Matt Kapko

Brands Join the Experimental Journey on Jelly

How a question-answer service with photographs could serve a brand’s marketing objective is a query that Jelly and its users will answer as the platfo...

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Localization Does Not Stand Alone in Marketing
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Localization Does Not Stand Alone in Marketing

12y Shannon E. Denison

Localization Does Not Stand Alone in Marketing

Localization needs a strategy, a framework and other key elements like consideration of consumer behavior, relevance, and personalization, in order to...

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FTC to Apple (and Mobile Community): Be Transparent
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FTC to Apple (and Mobile Community): Be Transparent

12y Yuyu Chen

FTC to Apple (and Mobile Community): Be Transparen...

Apple reached a settlement with the FTC today over a loophole that has allowed children to purchase unlimited virtual items in the Apple Store without...

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Facebook Expected to Take on FlipBoard With “Paper” Soon – Maybe
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Facebook Expected to Take on FlipBoard With “Paper” Soon – Maybe

12y Liva Judic

Facebook Expected to Take on FlipBoard With “Paper...

Facebook is reported to be bracing for its next service launch: Paper, a reader for mobile devices, directly competing with Flipboard. Read More...

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A Mobile Video Mission Statement: Enabling Scale, Ease & Consistency
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A Mobile Video Mission Statement: Enabling Scale, Ease & Consistency

12y Joe Laszlo

A Mobile Video Mission Statement: Enabling Scale,...

Having a sense of what's going on under the hood with mobile video will help the creative community build better ads faster and with less frustration....

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Two Trends to Watch in China: M-Commerce and Showrooming [Video]
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Two Trends to Watch in China: M-Commerce and Showrooming [Video]

12y Elisa Harca

Two Trends to Watch in China: M-Commerce and Showr...

Recent developments with Alibaba and JD.com could signal accelerated growth for mobile commerce in China. Read More...

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Toyota Speaks to Consumers With Voice Activated Mobile Ads
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Toyota Speaks to Consumers With Voice Activated Mobile Ads

12y Lisa Lacy

Toyota Speaks to Consumers With Voice Activated Mo...

The ads allow consumers to learn more about apps available in Toyota’s Entune system -- which also uses voice-activated technology -- by speaking thei...

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Havas Media APAC: Mobile Marketing to Accelerate Growth in 2014 [Video]
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Havas Media APAC: Mobile Marketing to Accelerate Growth in 2014 [Video]

12y Adaline Lau

Havas Media APAC: Mobile Marketing to Accelerate G...

Havas Media digital exec weighs in on mobile, RTB, and social media trends to note in 2014. Read More...

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